Re: [SM-DEVEL] Re: Simple Solution to the "Focus" annoyance

[Paul L. <pa...@sq...>]

Daniel W wrote:
> Daniel Watts wrote:
> 
>> This isn't a solution designed to allow selection above, below, of 
>> body text. This is a proposal to prevent the core code from tearing 
>> away focus on slower loading pages.
>>
>> Problem:
>> ========
>> Not sure if you ever get this but sometimes you'll hit reply, click in 
>> the body and start typing. A second or two later the page will finish 
>> loading, the javascript onLoad will be executed and you'll find 
>> yourself finishing your sentence in the "To:" column. Very 
>> frustrating. No matter WHAT setting the user has set, this should 
>> never happen.
>>
>>
>> Current Code (page_header.php) [line 168 in sm 1.4.4]
>> ==============================
>> "if( pos >= 0 ) {\n".
>>                     "document.forms[i-1].elements[pos].focus();\n".
>> "}\n".
>>
>>
>> Proposal
>> ========
>> Just change this to if (pos >= 0 && document.compose.body.focused=true)
>>
>> And add the focused setter to the textarea forum element:
>>
>> <TEXTAREA NAME=body ID=body ROWS=20 COLS="76" WRAP="VIRTUAL" 
>> onfocus="this.focused=true">
>>
>> Actually, ideally this focused property would be added to ALL form 
>> elements in squirrelmail since if a user clicks on a form element it 
>> certainly means that they want that element to stay focused.
>>
>> Perhaps a global "onclick" can disable the entire focus code from 
>> running? On click sets the variable "userhasclicked" and the focus 
>> script checks this variable before actually actioning anything. This 
>> would be a sweet and simple solution.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Daniel
> 
> 
> Hi - any response to this one? It seems to work well for another form 
> that I use on my website (the login box) and i'm sure would work well 
> for the compose form etc...


yes, yes.  i am looking at adding it, you just need to have patience.

-paul